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4UNTTED STATES Patented .my 12, soa.

PATENT UEET'CE.

ALBERT zEleER, C11-NEW YORK, N. Y.

TRAP.

spncrrrcirmron forming pm of Letters raient Ne. 765,121, dated Juiy 12, 1904.

Application filed January l5,

To all whom it puny concern:

Be it known that I, ALnER'r ZEIGER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings und State of New York, have invented a' new and Improved Trap, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description. h v

` The object of this invention is to prevent the siphoning of the usual S-trap used in plumbing and the like. Ordinarily if the upper bend of these traps becomes filled with a solidcolumn of water said column will establish a siphon which presses out from the trap its entire contents,thns defeating the very purpose for which the trap is designed. My invention seeks to overcome this disadvantage, and in carrying it out I prov-ide the'trap with a cross connection running in its upper bend at ai point above the water-line in the trap, this connection forming, with the upper bend, adivided passage from the lower bend, and thereby preventing` that suction on the water in the lower bend which will result in si phoning out the said water.

This specification is an exact description of one example of myinvention, while the claim deines the actual scope thereof.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawing, forming a part of this specification,

in which thc figurerepresents a sectional ele-,

vation of the invention.

aind'cates the lower bend of the trap, which is inte ded to contain water to the heightindicated by the letter b. c indicates the upper bend, both of' which parts a and c may be of the ordinary construction.

indicates the cross connection which passes between andcommunicates with the two limbs of the upper bend and llies Just above the waterline This cross connection Z inchnes down toward the outer limb (left hand in the drawing) of the trap, so as to drain all of the liquid from the cross-connectingp1pe.

The cross-connecting pipe d may or may not Vbe of a capacity equal to that of the main part of the trap, and in the operation of the device as the water is discharged into the trap it will flow through it in the usual manner, n part of the water passing through 4the cross .connection (Z and the remainder passing up through the top bend in thc usual manner. Assumingthat the water lies in the pipe in an unbroken column from the cross connection d outward or downward therefrom, it will be seen that this cohuun will be incapable oi exerting on the water vwithin the lower bend of the trap that suction necessary to Siphon out the water from said lower bend, 'since the'upper bend of the trap andthe cross connection d cannot both be full of water at anytime unless the water backs up in the trap. This is so by reason of' the fact that the upper bend of the trap and the cross connection d' can obviously carry offmore water than can pass through the lower bend (t.

Screw-plugs will of course be fitted to the trap at the necessaryv points for allowing the trap to be cleaned easily and at will.

Various changes in the form, proportions, and minoi details of my invention muy bere-z sorted to at will without departing from the spirit and scope thereof. Hence I consider myself entitled to all such variations as may'` lie within' the intent of my claim.

Having thus described my inventiolnl claim as new and desire to secure by Lettels Patent- An S-shapcd water-trap having a cross 'connection extending essentially horizontally from one limb of the upper bend to the other and lying above the normal water-line in thc` trap. l In testimony whereofI have signed myname to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ALBERT ZEIGER.

Witnesses:

' Geenen Dnmnen, ADAM OHnIs'rMANN, J r." 

